The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-03-26
BILL NYE.S NEW TEETH.
He Tells His Son All He Knows About
Filling Totterlng Mouth.

Your last issue of the Retina, your new
thought vehicle, published at New
Belony, was received yesterday. like
this number, l think, better than | did
the first. While the news in it seems
fresher, the editorial assertions are not
so fresh. Youdo not state that you "have
come to stay" this week, but L infer
that you occupy the same position you
did last week with reference to that.
was more especially interested in
your piece about how to rear children
and the care of parents. read it to
your mother last night while she was
setting her bread. Nothing tickles me
very often at my time of life, and when
l laughed a loud peal of laughter at
any thing nowadays it's got to be
pretty blamed good thing, l can tell
you that But your piece about bring
ing up children made me laugh real
hard. l enjoy piece like that from
the pen of a juicy young brain like
yours. 1t almost made me young
again to read the words of my jour
nalistic gosling son.
You also say that "teething is the
most trying time for parents" Do you
mean that parents are more fretful
when they are teething than any other
time? Your mother and ME reckoned
that you must mean that. If so, it
shows your great research. How a
mere child hardly out of knee-panties,
a young shoot like you, who was never
q parent for moment in his life, can
enter into and understand the woes
that beset parents is more than l can
understand, If you had been through
what have while teething | could see
how you might understand and write
about it, but at present | do not see
through it. The first teeth l cut as a
parent made me very restless. | was
sick two years ago with new disease
that was Just out, and the doctor gave
me something for it that made my teeth
fall like the leaves of autumn. In six
weeks after began to convalesce my
mouth was perfectly bald-headed. For
days / didn't bite into Ben Davis
apple that l didn't leave fang into it,
Well, after that / saw an advertise
ment in the Rural RuStIer-a paper |
used to take then-of a place where
you could get a set of teeth for six dol
lars, l didn't want TO buy high
priced and gaudy set of teeth at the
tail end of such life as / had led, and
l knew that teeth, no matter how ex-
pensive they might be, would be of
little avail to coming generations, so
went over TO the place nam ed in the
paper and got an impression of my
mouth taken.
There is really nothing in this life
that will take the stiff-necked pride out
of a man like viewing plaster cast of
his lettering mouth The dentist fed
me with large ladle full of putty or
plaster of paris, reckon, and told me
to hold it in my mouth till it set.
don't remember a time in all my
life when the earth and transitory
things ever looked so undesirable and
so trifling as they did while sat there
in that big red barber chair with my
mouth full of cold putty. l felt just as
man might when he is being taxi
dermied.
After awhile the dentist took out the
cast, 1t was a cloudy day and so it
didn't look much like me after all. If
it had l would have sent you one.
AfterTd set again two or three times,
we got pretty fair likeness, he sid,
and l went home, having paid six dol
lars and left my address.
Three weeks after that small boy
came with my new teeth
They were nice, white, shiny teeth
and did not look very CHASTITY after
had become used to them. wished at
first that the gums had been duller
red and that the teeth had not looked
so new. l put them in my mouth, bu
they felt cold and distant. | took then
out and warmed them in the sunlight
People going by no doubt thought tina
/ did it to show that was able to hay,
pew teeth, but that was not the case
Iwore them all that forenoon Will,
| butchered. There were times during
the forenoon when | wanted to tax,
them out, but when man is butcher
ing he hates to take his teeth out jus
because they hurt.
Neighbors told me that after my
mouth got hardened on the inside i
would feel better.
But, oh, how it relieved me at nigh
, to take those teeth out and put then
I on the top of cool bureau, where tn
, wind could blow through their whis
T kers! How hated to resume them il
2 the morning and start in on anOthe
, long day, when the roof of my moutl
/. felt like a big red buniOn and my gum